The
WORD of GOD
1 Peter 1:22 “Seeing ye have purified
your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit
unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye
love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word
of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and
all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The
grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth
away:
25 But the word of the
Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which
by the gospel is preached unto you.”
1. The WORD of GOD Purifies
2. The
WORD of Gives Eternal Life
3. The WORD of GOD is
Forever
1. The WORD of GOD Purifies
Verse twenty-two: “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:”
Do you know that the word of God will clean you?
This is one of the BASIC truths found in the Bible.
This has been revealed to us in the Gospel of John chapter fifteen in verse three.
Go there. "The disciples of Jesus Christ were made clean by the spoken word. “Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.” [John 15:3]
Do you see this? They were made clean through the word spoken by God.
Now, the written word of God [the Bible] has been doing the same thing [this same operation] for these last two thousand years to the body of Christ which is the Church.
This is found in the book of the Ephesians chapter five, verse twenty-six: “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,” [Ephesians 5:26].
Whenever you and I, as believers in Jesus Christ, obey the truth, which thing comes by reading, studying, memorizing and mediating in the word of God [in the King James Bible], we are [by the “washing of water by the word”] being made clean [This is called sanctification.]
This being so, [“the washing of water by the word”] in the believer will have, as its natural fruit, a love for the brethren.
Therefore, one of the distinctive marks of a true believer in Jesus Christ [the true Christian] manifested before all the world … is that he, or she, will love the brethren [other Christians], and more exactly, to a "unfeigned love of the brethren".
An “unfeigned love” means there is nothing hypocritical or fake about this love for the brethren. It is totally pure. It is one of the fruits of the true believer. See what, the BOOK says, in Second Corinthians chapter six, verse six: “By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,” [2 Corinthians 6:6]
2. The WORD of Gives Eternal Life
Verse twenty-three: “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
Now, the first birth of a man is when a man comes into this world as “a living soul.”
This is your physical birth!
Further, you came from the womb of your mother … formed by God. It is, as Job said it is, in Job chapter thirty-one: “Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?” [Job 31:15]
Now, the second birth [which is being born again] involves being made spiritually made alive by “a quickening spirit.”
We can see very this truth in First Corinthians chapter fifteen, verse forty-five and in Ephesians chapter two, one: “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” [1 Corinthians 15:45]
“Being born again” is being “quickened”. “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;” [Ephesians 2:1].
This event of the quickening of a man, or woman, to ETERNAL life is done “by the word of God.”
Verse twenty-four: “For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:”
The life of a person [having the first birth] is very short-lived, [It is brief] and is very much like the annual rye grass which springs up and then dies before even the summer is over.
It is as it says in the book of James: “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” [James 4:14]
Why goes this route. Why live for only a short time on this earth and then die. Think about it! Why not, go for the GOLD? Get saved by the BLOOD of the Lamb of God … and live forever! Amen!
3. The WORD of GOD is Forever
Verse twenty-five: “But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”
There is something “out there” and obtainable to you … that you can “cling to” in your life whenever you realize that you are in the time of need. “What is that?” you say. Are you ready for this! It’s the Bible!
Now, the Bible is a totally different kind of book. There is no other book like it in the whole world. I will tell you why. Its origin is SUPERNATURAL.
Its author is God, Himself. Yeah, God used men to write the words that God spoke … into a BOOK. Do not ever let the devils, or the Devil, himself, [Satan] lie to you about the supernatural origin of the Bible. Here is what happened. This is how we received the Bible.
Certain men [down through 3,500 year expanse of time] were “moved by the Holy Ghost” to write down God’s words in a BOOK to give to us. “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” [2 Peter 1:21]
Furthermore, in the universal language of the end times [in the English language], and in spite of the Devil and his cohorts [the scholars], God has preserved the inspiration of His words that He spoke in times past … in the Authorized Version of the Bible [A.V. 1611] commonly known as the King James Bible.
Friend, you can cling to that BOOK!
[I am clinging to the BOOK!]
You can cling to the King James Bible in your time of need with the total confidence that you have God’s word to you.
Cling to it!!!
You will purify yourself, if you do.